URGENT REQUEST
Things You Can Do:
July 6, 2008
Join the ON-LINE FACEBOOK Group that 4MyCanada has started.
In our tech age, Facebook talks! Let's see this group explode. This will be evidence to the media of a true grass roots rising. We will also use this group to keep you informed. (link here)
Contact the Governor General’s office, your Member of Parliament, people on the committee–to politely and continually express your concern over the Order of Canada’s protocol being broken in order to see Morgentaler receive this appointment. The Order of Canada is all about celebrating our identity as a Nation, please communicate that you do not believe abortion is something to be celebrated.
Here are some talking points about the history of the Order and the protocol that they have always followed in making appointments.
Order of Canada History:
- Intended for 2 purposes:
- To recognize outstanding lifetime achievement-local, national and international levels.
- To foster a sense of national unity/serve as a symbol of unity.
- Morgentalers appointment chips away at this unity
- The committee had to take a vote on this appointment, 2 members did not support it, the first time this has ever happened.
- Since 1967-all appointments have been by consensus/unanimity, this has been true for 41 years and 5,400 appointments.
- Why were the rules changed? Because the Advisory Council makes its own rules-it is usually decided by the Chair (Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin)
- The Advisory Council and Order of Canada are set up to be protected from political interference.
- The Governor General has never taken anyone off of the appointments list, neither has the PM.
- Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was the only PM to interfere-he delayed the appointment of Paul Desmerais Sr for 6 mths. The appointment came at the end of a bitter strike at 2 of the newspapers Desmerais owned-both the PM and the committee in 1978 felt that the timing would reflect poorly on the Order and the government of the day. We know that the Order does reflect on the government.
- Was never intended as a popularity contest, leaving the idea of consensus and moving toward voting flies against the success of the last 41 years!
- STEP 1: Program numbers listed below into your speed dial (the most important being the Secretary to the Governor General (613-993-0259) and the Deputy Secretary Order of Canada (613-998-8731)).
- STEP 2: Call these numbers every 2nd day and leave a message saying something like, “I am calling to tell you I do not agree with Morgentaler’s appointment to the Order of Canada and to ask you to have it rescinded (taken away).”
- STEP 3: Save the following e-mails in a group (smcook@gg.ca, esajous@gg.ca, media@scc-csc.gc.ca, reception@scc-csc.gc.ca, info@pco-bcp.gc.ca, info@rsc.ca, info@aucc.ca, iserrurier@gg.ca, meletourneau@gg.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca, scheea@parl.gc.ca, mclachlinb@scc-csc.gc.ca, copelandj@scc-csc.gc.ca).
- STEP 4: Write a letter expressing your heart regarding Morgentaler’s appointment to the Order of Canada.
- STEP 5: Hit send (to this group list you created in Step 3) every 2nd day!
* (Info from-Historian Christopher McCreery-Globe and Mail July 4, 2008)
4MyCanada has compiled contact info for the Advisory Council:
Ms. Sheila-Marie Cook
Secretary to the Governor General
Rideau Hall
1 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A1
Direct Line: 613-993-0259 phone / 613-993-1365 fax.
Tel: 613-993-8200 (main switchboard)
1 800 465-6890
Fax : 613-993-1967
smcook@gg.ca
Ms. Emmanuelle Sajous
Deputy Secretary
Order of Canada Chancellery
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A1
Tel: 613-998-8731
1 800 465-6890
Fax: 613-991-1681
esajous@gg.ca
Advisory Council (by Order of Canada Governance Requirement)
Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
Chief Justice of Canada
301 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0J1
Tel: 613-992-6940
Email: media@scc-csc.gc.ca , reception@scc-csc.gc.ca
Mr. Kevin Lynch
Clerk of the Privy Council
Langevin Block
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A3
Tel: 613-957-5400
Email info@pco-bcp.gc.ca
Ms. Judith LaRocque
Deputy Minister of Canadian Heritage
25 Eddy Street
Gatineau, Québec K1A 0M5
Tel: 819-994-1132
The Chair of the Canada Council:
Ms. Karen Kain, C.C.
Chair, Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, 12th Floor
P.O. Box 1047
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5V8
Tel: 1-800-263-5588 or 613-566-4414
Fax: 613-566-4390
http://www.canadacouncil.ca
Email: http://www.canadacouncil.ca/contactus/emfrm.htm?contactID=191
Also can contact: Grace Thrasher: Media and Public Relations,
1-800-263-5588, ext. 4134 or 613-566-4414, ext. 4134.
Also: Tel: 416-345-9686 (National Ballet of Canada for Karen Kain)
The President of the Royal Society of Canada
Dr. Yvan Guindon, C.M.
President
Royal Society of Canada
170 Waller Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 9B9
Tel: 613-991-6990
Fax: (613) 991-6996
E-mail (General Inquiries): info@rsc.ca
Web: http://rsc.ca/index.php?&page_id=77&lang_id=1
Also: Prof. Yvan Guindon, c.m., Directeur, Laboratoire de chimie bio-organique, IRCM, 110, avenue des Pins ouest, Montréal (Québec) H2W 1R7, Téléphone: 514-987-5785
Advisory Council
The Governor General may, on the recommendation of the members of the Council, appoint five persons belonging to the Order as members of the Council for a three-year term.
Mr. Thomas Traves, Ph.D.
Chair, Board of Directors, Ass'n of Universities and Colleges of Canada
350 Albert Street, Suite 600
Ottawa, Ontario K1R 1B1
Tel: 613-563-1236
Email info@aucc.ca
Also: Mr. Thomas Traves, Ph.D., President and Vice Chancellor, Dalhousie University, 6299 South Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H6, Telephone: 902-494-2511
Dr. Patricia Baird, O.C., O.B.C.
6174 University Blvd., Room 334
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
Tel: 604-822-6115
Dr. Daurene Lewis, C.M.
Principal
Nova Scotia Institute of Technology
P.O. Box 2210
Halifax, NS B3J 3C4
Tel: 902-491-6722 or 902-491-4752
Mr. L. Jacques Ménard, O.C
Chairman
BMO Nesbitt Burns
1 First Canadian Place
Toronto, Ontario M5X 1A3
Tel: 1-877-873-7664
Mr. J. Edward Newall, O.C.
Newall & Associates
855 2nd Street SW, Suite 3840
Calgary, Alberta T2P 4J8
Tel: 403-508-1940
Governor General’s Office - Media
Isabelle Serrurier
Rideau Hall Press Office
Tel: 613-998-7280
Email: iserrurier@gg.ca
Marie-Eve Letourneau
Rideau Hall Press Office
Tel: 613-998-0287
Email: meletourneau@gg.ca
Fax: 613 998-1664
Marie-Paule Thorn
Honours Media Relations
Tel: 613-993-2569
Fax: 613-998-1664
Juliane Martin
Honours Policy and Secretariat Services Officer
Tel: 613-993-0865
Fax: 613-991-1681
To contact the offices overseeing the Order of Canada:
Office of the Governor General
Ottawa ON K1A 0A1
info@gg.ca
Phone – 613-993-8200
Toll Free – 1-800-465-6890
Fax – 613-998-8760
Prime Minister Stephen Harper: pm@pm.gc.ca
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